Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) and Next Generation Access Control (NGAC)

Ferraiolo, David; Chandramouli, Ramaswamy; Kuhn, Richard; Hu, Vincent

doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2875491.2875496

Conference Proceedings

Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) and Next Generation Access Control (NGAC)

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Published: March 11, 2016

Author(s)

David Ferraiolo (NIST), Ramaswamy Chandramouli (NIST), Richard Kuhn (NIST), Vincent Hu (NIST)

Conference

Name: 2016 ACM International Workshop on Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC '16)
Dates: March 11, 2016
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Citation: ABAC '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Workshop on Attribute Based Access Control, pp. 13-24

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Abstract

Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) and Next Generation Access Control (NGAC) are very different attribute based access control standards with similar goals and objectives. An objective of both is to provide a standardized way for expressing and enforcing vastly diverse access control policies in support of various types of data services. The two standards differ with respect to the manner in which access control policies and attributes are specified and managed, and decisions are computed and enforced. This paper is presented as a consolidation and refinement of public draft National Institute of Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-178, describing and comparing these two standards.

Keywords

ABAC; XACML; NGAC; Policy Machine; access control

Control Families

Access Control

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03/11/16: Conference Proceedings (Final)